Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-04-23

the hollow horn on Friday last, says
that his columns are now open to
those who wish to complain of the
management of this road. He states
that the first hot box will be duly
chronicled, and that he will no longer
close his eyes to the wrongs we have
heretofore suffered at the hands of
this unjust and ruthless vampire that
has been swapping the very founda-
ton of our institutions and smearing
its long, dark trail with the remnants
of our best mich cows, reluctantly
paying for them the price set at the
tail of an unjust and enervating trial
by a corrupt, venal and dwelling
jury.
He says that "the time has come
for the press to arise and assert ITSELF"
and when the train runs off the track
and kills lot of people who have
led exemplary lives, his paper will
hereafter tell why and how it was
done. Heretofore he has not had
sufficient help in the Office, he claims,
and ne frequently ran short of type,
but now he is going to give all the
particulars of the first smash-up that
occurs on the road if the paper falls
into the relentless NAV Of a sheriff's
sale on the following week.
l asked railroad official of St.
Paul yesterday what effect the new
law would have on the freight rates
in the Northwest, and he said he
thought they would not be much
higher than they were before! This
announcement will fall like healing
balm on the sore place where the
shippers annual pass was ruthlessly
torn from his bleeding heart last
week.
Q The real estate boom along the
shores of Lake Superior still contin'
ues. 1t is equal to the palmy days o.
mining speculation in the Far West
u The boom, in fact, extends from Ash
y land and Washburn, West Superior
and Duluth, through Minneapolis,St
Paul, Omaha and Kansas City to E
Z Paso. / consider it good time t.
" sell, and shall dispose of my Lake
i Superior property by wire tomorrow
= ! do everything l can by wire now
4 Last year generally went in person
y and transacted my business.
y Three years ago, however, l bough
block by wire in a Dakota town
!. intending to sell as soon as 1 coul,
- double my money on it, but the gen
lo failed to sell until got irritated an,
g wrote him short, crisp letter, askin
10 him in scathing terms, why he di
~ not dispose of the lots and remit.
y, He replied that he had tried to d
=, as l had instructed him, but had bee
~ unable to sell them at any price, a
though the town itself was growing
~ He said that the town was GROWN
~ in the other direction, mostly, an
" lots generally sold better in the d
u rectien OF the growth of the towr
~ SPY and by" said he, "the town wi
y reach the Minnesota State line, an
:, then it will have TO grow the otht
l" way. Your lots will then rapid
>, advance. The worst trouble wit
~ your lots, however," continued II
:. agent, "is the fact that in the sprinj
-'' when real estate is booming, YOU
property is under seven feet of waite
W and this water is so strongly impre
mated with mud that buyers cam
~ look through it to get a good view
N1 ~, your lots"
~ ~ l finally mortgaged the property
- heavily as possible and continued
W lose it on the mortgage. l do n
~ think | have ever seen a better pie
:. of property to float first mortgal
-. on than this same property referr'
~ to. BILL NYE.
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* Fence Rail Philosophy.